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With a camera hidden in a hollowed-out Bible, peeking through the “O” of the word “Holy,” and a pair of rigged reading glasses, Scott Whitney secretly filmed the world behind bars, inside one of Florida’s notoriously dangerous prisons. For four years, the 34-year-old convicted drug trafficker captured daily life on contraband cameras at the Martin Correctional Institution. He smuggled footage dating back to 2017 out of the prison, and titled the documentary “Behind Tha Barb Wire.” The video — given to the Miami Herald — allows the public to see with their own eyes the violence, rampant drug use and...

The Justice Department has announced charges in a “sophisticated” criminal operation that it says used high-powered drones to deliver weapons, drugs, cell phones and escape tools into prisons in east coast states. US Attorney Keyes the middle district of Georgia, Federal Bureau of Prisons and FBI investigators in Atlanta, say the rogue drone operation led out of a former daycare in Macon, Georgia where multiple drones were launched on covert missions to deliver the contraband by air to 10 federal prisons at night. “We’re here to announce the unsealing of an indictment that charges the most sophisticated and sprawling criminal...

WACO (September 16, 2013)--A man who tried to eat a family’s dog after a bad trip on a synthetic marijuana drug pleaded guilty Monday to animal cruelty charges. Michael Terron Daniel, 22, elected to have his punishment decided by a jury and panel selection is set to begin Tuesday morning in 19th District Court. Daniel pleaded guilty Monday to cruelty to a non-livestock animal in a bizarre incident on June 14, 2012, when a man who claimed to be on the synthetic drug K-2 chased a neighbor while barking and growling like a dog and then attacked the dog, which...

ITTSBURGH -- A teenage boy is on a ventilator after his parents said he smoked what he thought was marijuana. Ray and Tonya Rice's 13-year-old son Brandon was a healthy soon-to-be eighth-grader at South Moreland Middle School. The Rices said in mid-June he was having trouble breathing and said he thought he was having a heart attack. "He was telling me that he couldn't feel his hands and his legs," said Ray Rice. "He said he couldn't breathe. He was vomiting and had a high fever." His parents said following his sudden illness he ended up in intensive care at...